Snapshots of Your DEMOCRATIC Party, 21st Century Style

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by Chicks

Ahead of 2020, Koch brothers consider backing some Democrats

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ahead...155746968.html

And they're still refusing to back Donny 2020. Pragmatic, they're certainly not having a sudden attack of morality.

Donny despite his inability to be cohesive has exposed the bipartisan nature of the sellout to China which occurred during both Dem and Repub admins.

[nailer]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

The aren't backing Democrats for any reason except to move the party rightward. These guys are the greatest influence-buyers of all time.

ANY Democrat shown to have taken Koch money should be tarred and feathered.

Clinton, Obama and the currents of history are moving the party right. According to the article, it would appear the Koches are trying to establish a workable bipartisan center like we use to have when America was great.

Only T & F the losers.

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by nailer

Clinton, Obama and the currents of history are moving the party right. According to the article, it would appear the Koches are trying to establish a workable bipartisan center like we use to have when America was great.

Only T & F the losers.

They going to the primaries to thwart lefty upstarts.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by nailer

Clinton, Obama and the currents of history are moving the party right. According to the article, it would appear the Koches are trying to establish a workable bipartisan center like we use to have when America was great.

Only T & F the losers.

There can be no workable bipartisan center with the current corrupt racist norm-breaking Republican Party. At this point, tar and feather the Republicans and any Koch-funded running-dog lackeys.

[nailer]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

They going to the primaries to thwart lefty upstarts.

A working bipartisan center requirement.

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by nailer

A working bipartisan center requirement.

Ok, I get you.

[Pio1980]

The wingnuts seem to be more successful on the right than the left.
I didn't think Bernie could carry the day, and I still don't see that happening.

[Chicks]

Andrew Yang, the most meme-able 2020 candidate, also wants to save journalism

https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/04/an...ve-journalism/

A long-shot candidate to be sure, but he does have some interesting ideas. Maybe he can figure out a way to save local journalism, but can he teach the misinformed Faux "News" morons to read? Unlikely. Somehow, Faux, Limbaugh, and all the other disingenuous, hate-mongering, right-wingnut outlets need to be kneecapped to save our democracy.

[Chicks]

Hillary on The News Hour just now, being interviewed by a real journalist (Judy Woodruff). Looks and sounds SO presidential! Sad for our democracy that Pootin defeated her.

[Chicks]

The cult of Trump faces the calm of Adam Schiff

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...nt-adam-schiff

“I think the president just debases the office of the presidency,” Schiff said. “I think about the great people who have served in that office.” He pointed to photographs on his wall of Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower.

“And then you think, ‘Oh, my God, that same office that these great men once held is being held by someone who calls people these ridiculous, fifth-grade nicknames,’” Schiff said. “I suppose compared to coercing an ally do to his political dirty work, nicknames is a rather minor thing, but in ways large and small he has brought such dishonor to that office.”

Thursday, in his closing statement, Schiff was eloquent and passionate as he summed up the case against Trump. He invoked a hero of Watergate: Howard Baker, the GOP senator who was expected to protect Republican President Nixon during the Senate hearings but instead asked a question that led to Nixon’s downfall: What did the president know and when did he know it?

“Where is Howard Baker?” Schiff asked. “The difference between then and now is not the difference between Nixon and Trump. It’s the difference between that Congress and this one. Where are the people who are willing to go beyond their party to look to their duty?”

In Trump’s Republican Party, they simply don’t exist. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham has turned against his dear friend Joe Biden, the former vice president. Energy Secretary Rick Perry and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have both said that God has ordained Trump’s presidency.

On Monday, Schiff announced to his colleagues that the inquiry had turned up “massive amounts of evidence” that the president had abused his office. His committee will deliver a report after Thanksgiving to the House Judiciary Committee, which will be responsible for drafting articles of impeachment.

If the House votes in favor of impeachment, the Senate will set a trial. To convict and remove the president would require a two-thirds vote of the Republican-dominated Senate, which means 20 Republican senators, at least, would have to vote for removal.

If that doesn’t happen — and it probably won’t, given the rabidly partisan nature of the support for Trump — will the impeachment effort have been in vain?

Hardly.

“We have a responsibility to do our constitutional duty,” Schiff said. “We are not absolved of that because one party has decided to devote itself to a cult of the president rather than its constitutional duties.”

What will it take, you have to wonder, to deprogram the Republicans?

The contrast between this great democrat and the current occupant of the Oval Office is simply that between a calm, reasoning, thinking adult, and a sniveling, bullying, rapacious child. We cannot let the child win.